Ball v. Ball

This case involves a proceeding in a divorce case to change the custody of one of three children from the father to the maternal grandparents on the ground of a change of circumstances. The district court dismissed the amended ancillary petition of the grandparents and confirmed the custody of the minor daughter in the father. This appeal followed.

Wayne Ball and Gladys Ball were married in 1950. They have three children, John, Thomas, and Susan. At the time of the hearing on August 23, 1965, the children were respectively 13, 12, and 10 years old. The plaintiff, Wayne Ball, filed a divorce…